Living Architecture Spring 2009 Columbia

Scenario

: Reality vs Perception

What if architecture responded to real environment and our perception about it?

In this city, we can find some devises which score the level of current environmental pollution.

How many people recognize those devises?

How many people recognize correctly and easily the degree of pollution with it?

Normally, there is a difference between ‘real’ data of environmental changes and people’s ‘perceptual’ data about it.

How much is this difference? How people feel this difference?

The project started with this imagination that architecture can not only respond the environmental change, but also visualize the difference between the real condition and our environmental perception.

 

Components

Input:

Reality – pachube data

Perception – mobile text messages with twitter

Processing:

Reality - Transferring CO2 data from pachube

Perception - Transferring scored ranges from the text messages with twitter

Output:

Two interfaces for real data and perceptual condition

Horizontal expansion of interfaces according to the changes of data and the score from the mobile text

Volumetric variation of skin based on this expansion

 

Features

Functions:

Text message - positive motivation of people. timeless and most economic way

Skin -  efficient 3 dimensional visualization devise

Interface movement – controlled different frequency through the data

 

Site:

Where - Port Authority Station, Manhattan, New York

How - Hanging - more easier way to maximize the movement and to be recognized by people.